1952, signed lower right; including the original gallery guarantee and brochure illustrating the work; provenance: The artist to Galerie F. Clair, Paris, France; March 1952, Herbert Arnot Inc., New York; March 20, 1952, Curtis, U.S.A.; Private Collection, U.S.A.; October 2, 1995, Galleries Maurice Sternberg, Chicago, Illinois; Private Collection, Joliet, Illinois, U.S.A.; Family by descent; to be included in volume III by Nicole Verdier “EDOUARD CORTES, Catalogue raisonne de l’oeuvre peint” to be published in 2019